Engineer Rob Bell reveals the secrets behind some of the historic ships that shaped the history of our island nation.Engineer Rob Bell reveals the secrets behind some of the historic ships that shaped the history of our island nation.Engineer Rob Bell reveals the secrets behind some of the historic ships that shaped the history of our island nation.
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Too many errors
I, an avowed Titanic freak, started to watch the first of this series. I only managed about half an hour of it (a one-hour show including adverts) .
The reason was, primarily, because of the loose association with the facts about the liner. Firstly, the presenter (I'll come back to him in a minute) kept referring to Titanic as if it was unique and that everything on it was a "first". Olympic was virtually white-washed (sorry for the pun) out of the narrative. In reality, Titanic was merely the second ship in a class of three and White Star had engineered in the title of "largest or biggest" by dint of changing some of the accommodation as a result of experience with Olympic. Then he implied that all passengers reached the Titanic aboard the Nomadic. At one stage he refers toTitanic as "the biggest ship ever"! I could go on, but I'm sure you get my drift.
Anyway, secondly, on to the presenter. Another reviewer has said he might be naturally that enthusiastic but I just found him annoying. He's supposed to be an "expert" but all those gaffs suggest to me that he doesn't know anything about the subject and is just spouting from an under-researched script.
If one can see errors at a basic level, how can one believe anything else in a programme? Independent TV production companies seem to be hell-bent on rubbishing their own productions by too little research and this is one of the worst I've seen (another is Trains that Changed The World) - I'm not going to bother watching the rest of this episode nor those that follow.
Avoid.
The reason was, primarily, because of the loose association with the facts about the liner. Firstly, the presenter (I'll come back to him in a minute) kept referring to Titanic as if it was unique and that everything on it was a "first". Olympic was virtually white-washed (sorry for the pun) out of the narrative. In reality, Titanic was merely the second ship in a class of three and White Star had engineered in the title of "largest or biggest" by dint of changing some of the accommodation as a result of experience with Olympic. Then he implied that all passengers reached the Titanic aboard the Nomadic. At one stage he refers toTitanic as "the biggest ship ever"! I could go on, but I'm sure you get my drift.
Anyway, secondly, on to the presenter. Another reviewer has said he might be naturally that enthusiastic but I just found him annoying. He's supposed to be an "expert" but all those gaffs suggest to me that he doesn't know anything about the subject and is just spouting from an under-researched script.
If one can see errors at a basic level, how can one believe anything else in a programme? Independent TV production companies seem to be hell-bent on rubbishing their own productions by too little research and this is one of the worst I've seen (another is Trains that Changed The World) - I'm not going to bother watching the rest of this episode nor those that follow.
Avoid.
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- jeremyenglish-31786
- Dec 10, 2019
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